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Lana Wood said Monday, "I'm scared, I'm nervous, I'm happy, I think. I'm so ambavilent, it's almost like having to relive her death again."

Lana Wood discussed the reopening of the investigation into her sister Natalie Wood's 1981 death Monday morning on the Today show.

She told Matt Lauer that the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department had alerted her the case was going to be in the spotlight again and that she was nervous about it: "I'm scared, I'm nervous, I'm happy, I think. I'm so ambivalent, it's almost like having to relive her death again."

Natalie Wood, then 43, mysteriously disappeared from her yacht, Spendour, in Nov. 1981. She was on board with husband Robert Wagner and Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken.At the time, authorities ruled her death an accidental drowning, but many have questioned the events of that night, including her sister and the yacht's captain, Dennis Davern, who more than a year ago were both calling for the department to reopen its investigation.

Lana Wood said on Today, "I have spent the last 30 years preferring to believe that everything was simply an accident. It's been easier that way and I think easier for a great many people although a lot of things didn't add up and I was always concerned about various things that were said.

When asked if she believed the captain's theory that Wagner was involved in the death, Lana Wood replied, "Unfortunately I do." She added about Davern, "I've never known him to lie. He certainly never has to me."

Though she backed the reopening of the case, Wood admitted she was not sure she wanted to know the outcome, "I'm so frightened of hearing things I don't want to hear. I would like to be told that everything is exactly as they said."